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A friend of mine is using an iPad for a couple of weeks and is pretty happy using it. Yesterday I had the first chance having an iPad in my own hands. It was a fantastic experience. Ste Jobs himself wrote in his blog post basically that the days for Flash technologies have been counted. Well, I’ve been a strong believer in Flash technologies, but I have to admit the statements in his post are kind of pretty close to the reality.

I consider buying an iPad on my own as soon as possible, because I’m quite often in situations, where I do need a big screen to look something up, but I do not want to spend my time on waiting until my computer, Outlook/Entourage or my browser is ready to go. Thus the iPad seems to be my device of choice.

A friend of mine has a small MacBook in his living room for such cases, but it seems the iPad is even more flexible, especially when we’re talking on battery live vs weight vs usage vs cost. Using the iPhone is not an option. Writing eMails with this device is too far away from what I would call convenient. I’m rather using my poor old blackberry for writing longer eMails than using the iPhone.Watching photos with friends? Usually I’m doing this with my MacBook or my Playstation on TV, but this taks time for boot again. So, the iPad seems to be my only choice.

But having such a device without Flash?

See what Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is saying to that:

Caution – cannot be seen on an iPhone or iPad since Wall Street Journal provides video in Flash players.

One more interesting thing of this interview. I miss a strategic statement from Adobe’s site. Saying “we’ll see what customers want” is smart and saying that it makes sense having one environment for all platforms is smart too, but this is not in the interest of platform providers. Do we need to wait until another Linus T will enlight us with a free mobile device OS, or is Android already the answer?

Found this “Why you not should buy an iPad”-Spot on YouTube:

Alternative? Android?

Wel, not really out there. The first betas of Flash are running on Android, but all of this stuff is beta.

One thing is for sure. There’s a big battle and this battle is pretty interesting to watch and it is great being part of it as a customer. It is also great being part of it because I’m pretty sure the end of this battle will guide us to the next generation of devices and possibly to the next generation of how to access information. Or is all of this just a hype to keep stock prices high?!

Well, I still like the iPad and it’s idea. As Shantanu said, it is a good 1st generation device.

One question remains: Where the heck is Microsoft in this area? Kin does not really seem to be an answer.